Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
From the monthly archives:
Revenue
Q1 2008 90.5, Q1 2007 82.4, Growth 10%
Operating Income Before AmortizationQ1 2008 10.1, Q1 2007 8.4, Growth 21%
Operating IncomeQ1 2008 7.1, Q1 2007 8.2, Growth -13%
Revenue growth was driven by an 8% and 12% increase in international subscribers and revenue per subscriber, respectively, and 6% growth in revenue per subscriber domestically where subscribers declined slightly. [...]
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Evan Katz, better known as E-Cyrano as well as a principal of Though Rocket is officially off the market. Congrats to Evan and his better half, both of whom I had the pleasure of spending time with in South Beach a few months ago. Please send me your little black book, I will provide shipping [...]
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Several weeks ago I was approached by a gentleman named Darwin Stephenson to participate in a new Internet radio show about dating.
Today I’m proud to announce the launch of CupidCast, the Internet Radio & Podcast Dating Show. CupidCast is part of the STUDIO [darwin] radio network.
CupidCast is a weekly Internet Radio Talk-Show and Podcast covering [...]
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I have spent an inordinate amount of time on Twitter lately. If you thought blogs sucked you into a vortex, just wait until you try Twitter. Follow me on Twitter.
I will attempt to describe Twitter. Many people have done a much better job.
A Twitter post is called a Tweet. Tweets are the same length as [...]
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JDate, the leading online community for Jewish singles, has been selected as an Official Honoree for the Social Networking category in the 12th Annual Webby Awards.
Last time I checked JDate was a dating site. “J” for Jewish, “Date” for dating. Someone please explain this to me.
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Facebook chat is rolled out to just about everyone today. When chat is tied into Facebook dating applications things are going to get interesting. Reminds me of Userplane’s desktop presence if you have Facebook notifications turned on.
Conversation is getting broken down into increasingly smaller chunks. What is our attention threshold for paying attention to [...]
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Singlesnet is soundly thrashing Mate1 in the quest for online dating traffic dominance. We can thank Marc Porcelli, Chief Marketing Officer, for the babes at Singlesnet.
Even SinglesNet is advertising other dating sites now. Will people really going to go to a site called usearchlocal? Today I read some research that women respond to dating site [...]
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